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There seem to be a few people who've mentioned they've used pre-computer technology, one pretty recently. My worm-eaten brain can only remember "Atomic" who bought an offset press & is going to try to relearn what he used to do with one in school.

Have you heard of The Match? Pretty much no web presence, but I'm sure you can find the POB on-line somewhere.

The most I've done is messed around with a ditto machine, one hectograph and one bottle-n-brush mimeo experiment. I've been trying to investigate pre-computer technology, but it's been a long uphill climb. However slow, I'm going to keep trying. I've heard some say it's easy and worth the effort, others that the learning curve is impossibly steep for most, and I should give up. We'll see.

I don't know if photocopiers are technically "analog" or whether they have a digital element to them. Newer ones do I suppose. What about digital mimeographs? A fusion of both? Most "old-schoolers" probably don't use presses, but scissors, glue, old books & magazines, in xerox machines.

Everything done on photoshop was once done by hand. You can get 1000's of different effects with liquid emulsion and enlargers in a darkroom that can enhance any zine. Its all about experimenting and knowing the chemistry and timing. Its too bad that darkrooms and their materiasl aren't as common and cheap as before.

There are tons of possiblities.

its not about nostalgia or anti new technology as much as it is using a more natural and physical realm of working that just happenes to "analog".

Photocopiers just recently became digital. Difference is digital copiers are dot based, analog ones are line based.